Started in 2011 as a therapy for my Dysthymia, this blog has taken so many twists and turns along the way! Current project is Perry Miniatures Desert Rats & Afrika Korps along with the Travel Battle set.

Saturday, 2 June 2012

Action! - Commands & Colours, Opening moves.

OK, I have a quiet few hours this afternoon so I'll get some play testing done. It will be slow going of course as I'm very much learning these rules at this stage and I want to write it up blow by blow for future reference. This means playing a move, reading rules, taking pics than coming back downstairs to download the images and write it up! I'm very quickly annotating the pics using 'paint' ( I'll have to update my image editing software I know!). Hopefully this should suffice though and by the end of the week I'll have a full battle written up. Next time I will take more care to prepare a proper scenario, but for now its as seen in the first pic. I'm mainly focusing on the rules at this stage as I hope you will understand.

5 command cards per side. 5 Victory banners for a win with a VB awarded for the capture of any village in the opponents half. Simples! French move first as below.

French left flank, first order - 'assault left flank' card played.

British first move - 'Forced march' card played in centre for a general infantry advance at double move rate.

French second move 'Bombard card played'.1 Hit on target and 2 'flag' rolls cause them to fall back.

British second move- 'Scout left flank' card played - Rifles advance into woods to front.

Yes, I'm just playing both sides, drawing the best card I can. But Tony has pointed me to a good random means of selecting a random card for one side when playing solo. I'll add the link to that in the email for you but his whole blog is well worth reading for CCN info and games. But because you only have a limited hand to choose from it has a sort of randomised feel anyway I'm finding so far. The 'hand' is constantly changing and you try to hold back on some of the action cards for the right moment. What I like is the speed per move as may only get to move a couple of units!

Going back to the English Civil War

This is the title of my other blog dedicated to painting armies of the ECW using Hinchiffe 25mm castings. I'm attempting to recreate the figures I owned over 30 years ago, the old range has been given a new lease of life by Ian Hinds of Hinds Figures Ltd and the figures are crisp and sharp just as I remember them.